Safety-razor.



0. KAMPFE.

SAFETY RAZOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1907. RENEWED SEPT. 10, 1912.

1,059,333. Patented Apr. 15, 1913.-

UNITED STATES PATENT orsion- OT 'IO KAMPFE, OF NEW YORK, N. ASSIGNOBTOKAMPFE 3305., A CORPORATION OF i NEW YORK.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

Application filed July 20 1907, Serial No. 384,798.

Specification of Letters Patent,

- Patented Apr. 15, 1913. Renewed September 10, 1912. Serial No.719,647.

Y To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, om KAMrre, a citizen of the United States,residingat the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city andState of New York, have in vented an Improvement in Safety-Razors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention is designed as an improve ment upon the interchangeableblade safety razor shown and described inmy application for LettersPatent filed October 2,1906,

bination with a suitable handle, I provide a, bent body member adaptedfor connection tothe handle and having integral therewith a transverselyfiat and longitudinally curved combguardwith teeth having over-turnefree ends, with one or moreears at the forward corners, with ,an endclip overturned from the guard and with means for regulating the;position of the blade.

' I employ at one end of the' comb-guard a blade-retaining clip-armwhich is pivoted clip, bending the blade guard and engaging its otherend by the that is arched longitudinally.

to one of the forward corner ears and at its other end is adapted toengage a shouldered notch or catch of the body member: The normally flatblade is connected to the-body member by passing one end beneath the enddown over the combclip-arm whic snaps to place at the shouldered catch.-A reverse movement releases the blade and it returns to'its normal fiatcondition and may be removed and replaced by another. Thebladeconsequently in its position as flexed for use has a cuttingedgeFigure 1 is a front ele- In the drawing,

Fig. 3 a SldB elevavation. Fig. 2 a plan,

'tion partly in section,-Fig. 4 a vertical cross section at w, m,Fig. 1. Fig.5 is a plan of. another form of my invention and Fig. 6 is across section at 3 1 Fig. 5.

' 0, represents the bent body member which in cross section very closelyresembles the bent portion ofthe body member :as shown shaving surface,or to the 1 swinging over in my aforesaid application. This bent bodymember is providedwith a head at 2 perforated and interiorly threaded to'receive the screw stem b of the tubular handle I) in connecting thehandle and the body member together, and this head is securely rivetedto the lower portion of the bent body member for this purpose. The bentbody member is' constructed integrally with a guard-comb a having teetha with overturned free ends.

The guard-comb is inclined to the axis of the handle and transversely atslightly greater than a right angle to the back of the body member; itis transversely fiat and longitudinally curved. It is provided at theforward corners with down-turned ears 3, with an over-turned end-clip 4and with ears 5 rising from the back of the body member and perforatedfor small adjusting screws 9 which are adapted to come up against theback of the blade 0 so as 'I provide a blade-retaining clip-arm d dplaced at the right hand of the safety razor as shown in Figs. 1 and 2,and which is pivotally connected at one end to one forward corner ear 3at 6 and its forward end is made with a'projection adapted to snap underthe shouldered catch 7 formed in the back of the. body member. In crosssection this clip-arm has parts at right angles toone another, the upperportion of which -similarto the end-clip 4,--extends over the ends ofthe thin razor blade 0 when the same is in p0sition,--holdingthesamesecurely in position with the curved and transversely fiat upper surfaceof the guard-comb, with the blade bent so that the outer surface isconvex and the cuttingedge curved and presented flexed to the face or toa shaving surface.

To insertthe thinnormally fiat blade and connect the, same to ,the bodymember above the curved guard-comb, it is only necessary V to swing oventhe clip-arm d on 1ts pivot 6 and grasping the blade at the right hanoend, place the left hand end under the clip 4,bending the blade downover the curved guardcomb with the back of the blade against the screwsof the ears 5, and then the clip and snapping, the

hereinbefore desame into en agement as 'fiexed and held scribed. Thelade is then blade lying against the to adjustthe rela- {tion of thecutting edge of the blade to the 3 ends of the teeth of the comb-guard.

firmly in position under tension, longitudinally curved and convex, withits cutting edge curved or arched andready for use.

I have shown in the surface of the blade near the back edge, alongitudinal recess 8 ed upon the dulling of one edge to turn the bladearound end for end and present the fresh keen edge to the comb for use.In this form, the ears 5 and screws 9 are not employed, and the blade isplaced or centered by means of rounded projections 10 formed in andabove the surface of the longitudinally curved comb guard entering holes11 along the center of the normally flat blade. Otherwise than in thisrespect the safety razor is constructed exactly like that shown in theother figures of the drawingrand the operation is identical therewith.

his device is exceedingly simple,-it is inexpensive to construct inviewof the integral character of the body member and the partsassociated therewith, and it includes only few parts and there is nocomplication of the parts whatsoever to get out of order or adjustment.

I claim as my invention 1. In a razor and in combination with a normallyflat blade sharpened along one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bentbody member, a guard-comb transversely flat and at an angle to the bentbody member and longitudinally curved and provided with teeth havingover-turned free ends, a clip at one end adapted to receive one end ofthe normally fiat blade, and a pivoted clip-arm at the other end adaptedto come down upon and hold the other end of the blade, flexing orbending the same over the surface of the guard-comb and holdingthe sameinplace. 2. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat bladesharpened along one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body memberhaving integral therewith a longitudinally bent and convexed guard-comb,its

teeth with over-turned free ends, with ears 3 at the forward corners,with an end-clip 4 and ears 5 receiving screws for regulating theposition of the blade, and a blade-1e and a blade-retainin tainingclip-arm pivotallyconnected to the guardlcomh.

3. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat blade sharpenedalong one edge, and a handle, of a bent body member,

a guardcomb with teeth having over-turned free ends formed integral withthe body member, the guard-comb being flat trans-,

versely' and at an angle to the back of the body member and curvedlongitudinally, an end-clip 4 over turned along one end of theguard-comb for receiving one end of the nor.- mally flat blade and apivoted clip-arm at the other end of the guard-comb adapted to come downupon and hold the bladeat its other end, maintaining the same in aflexed or bent condition, with a convex outer surface and a curvedcutting edge.

4. Inaarazor and in combination with a Y normally fiat blade sharpenedalong one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member havingintegral therewith a longitudinally bent and convexed guard-comb, itsteeth with over-turned free ends, with ears, 3 at the forward corners,with an end-clip4 and a blade-retaining clip-arm pivotally connected tothe guard-comb.

5. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat blade sharpenedalong one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member havingintegral therewith a longitudinally bent and convexed guard-comb, itsteeth with over-turned free ends, w'ith' ears 3at the forward corners,with an end-clip 4 clip -arm pivotally connected to the guar -comb'andmeans for determining the position of theblade and its cutting edge withreference to the ends of the comb.

6. In a razor and in combination with a normally-fiat blade sharpenedalong one of its longest edges, and a suitable handle, of a bent bodymember adapted for connection with the handle, a guard-comb integralwith the body member and formed transversely. flat and longitudinallycurved and having teeth, an integral clip at one end adapted .to receiveone end of the normally fiat razor blade, and a pivoted deviceat'theother end adapted to engage the blade and to engage the bodymember in securing the blade flexed and convex upon the curved guardcomband with its cuttin ,edge curved.

. Signed by me this 3d ay'of July 1907. OTTO .KAMPFE. Witnesses: i

GEO. T PINCKNEY, E. ZACHARIASEN.

